Stamp: Southern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) (Tristan da Cunha 1954)
Southern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) (Tristan da Cunha 1954)
02 January (Tristan da Cunha ) within release Definitives of Tristan da Cunha goes into circulation Stamp Southern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) face value 1½ Saint Helena penny
| Stamp Southern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) in catalogues | |
|---|---|
| Stamp Number: | Sn:GB-TC 16 |
Stamp is square format.
Also in the issue Definitives of Tristan da Cunha:
- Stamp - Carting Flax face value 1;
- Stamp - Southern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) face value 1½;
- Stamp - Factory face value 2;
- Stamp - Black-browed Mollymawk (Diomedea melanophrys) face value 2½;
- Stamp - Island boat face value 3;
- Stamp - View of Tristan face value 4;
- Stamp - Potato patches face value 5;
- Stamp - Inaccessible Island face value 6;
- Stamp - Nightingale Island face value 9;
- Stamp - St. Mary's Church face value 1;
- Stamp - Southern Elephant-seal (Mirounga leonina), Gough Island face value 2'6;
- Stamp - Inaccessible Rail (Atlantisia rogersi) face value 5;
- Stamp - Island spinning wheel face value 10;
Stamp Southern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) it reflects the thematic directions:
Birds (Aves), a subgroup of Reptiles, are the last living examples of Dinosaurs. They are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 ft) ostrich. They rank as the class of tetrapods with the most living species, at approximately ten thousand, with more than half of these being passerines, sometimes known as perching birds. Birds are the closest living relatives of crocodilians.
Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae (/sfɪˈnɪsɪdiː, -daɪ/) of the order Sphenisciformes (/sfɪˈnɪsəfɔːrmiːz/). They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: only one species, the Galápagos penguin, is found north of the Equator. Highly adapted for life in the ocean water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage and flippers for swimming. Most penguins feed on krill, fish, squid and other forms of sea life which they catch with their bills and swallow whole while swimming. A penguin has a spiny tongue and powerful jaws to grip slippery prey
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia (also called Metazoa). All animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and independently, at some point in their lives. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their lives. All animals are heterotrophs: they must ingest other organisms or their products for sustenance.
